Smashing a TV in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys - television
Smashing a TV in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys
Gav and Dan show you what happens when a TV from the late 80s meets a hammer from the late 90s.
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Television - Little Johnny Jewel, Live '78 (from The Blow Up) - television
Television - Little Johnny Jewel, Live '78 (from The Blow Up)
A standout track from The Blow Up, a '78 live show released as an official release cassette on the ROIR label in the early '80s, followed by an unauthorized CD. Previously, vinyl LP & cassette bootlegs of the show had circulated. It's a recording of a March 20, 1978 Television show at the Long Island, NY club "My Father's Place". Discography trivia: I've seen "The Blow Up" sometimes described as a compilation of songs from various '78 shows, but my impression of its origin's different. 'Cause, when The Blow Up first came out on cassette, I was sure (was I mistaken?) the whole tape was identical to a bootleg cassette I already had of one specific '78 show from My Father's Place club, except The Blow Up inexplicably left out the song "Poor Circulation" the bootleg tape included. More trivia: A small section of the song never got recorded, as the audience member taping it had to change cassettes before the song ended. Can you hear where Tom's solo near the end stops abruptly, & then they're already into the last section of the song? It was more noticeable on cassette bootleg circulated in the late '70s, as a short, silent gap was left on the bootleg tape versions. By the time it was issued on The Blow Up, they'd edited it together tidily. Feb. 2012 Update: For those interested in old/rare Television/Tom V. articles, here's a link to a file I uploaded of scans of approx. 60 articles/interviews (most contain interview content): www.4shared.com I collected them between 1978 ...
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With Michael, from roster teeth?
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Gav should do a video where he shoots michael with a paintball gun.
ReplyDelete1:26 "That's the worse throw I've ever seen." Obviously he hasn't meet Caboose...
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they should drop a tv from a high heights and just let it smash into the ground
ReplyDeleteI think its a reflection of the hammer.
ReplyDeleteit's not a crack. It's a reflection of a hammer.
ReplyDeleteLol i have that hammer!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else notice that the TV cracks before the hammer hits it at 1:47?
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ReplyDeleteאם לתרגם את זה בגוגל מזל טוב!
Thanks for pointing out the obvious.
ReplyDeletewtf with the kid crying at the start
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ReplyDeleteYou've got the same hammer as me!
ReplyDeleteit's the reflection of the hammer on the glass. if you stop it at that time you can see it.
ReplyDeletealready at 0:16 you can hear it
ReplyDeleteit started to broke at 1:46 later than the hammer touch the screen
ReplyDeleteA Camera recording a camera recording something in slowmotion..
ReplyDeleteWow! Tom Verlaine sounds like John Coltrane on this song! Incredible!
ReplyDeleteTerrific stuff. Anyone know of a cd that is as good as this? I used to have the album 'Marquee Moon', which was good but not this good it seems to me. I guess I need a really good live album
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU! EXCELLENT!
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ReplyDeleteIt sure seems like it.
ReplyDeleteSame as the way Def Leppard's 'Photograph' rips off the chords from The Pretenders' 'Brass in Pocket,' and The Pretenders' 'Tattooed Love Boys' rips off the exact chords from 'London Calling,' and The Clash's 'Guns on the Roof' rips off the Who's 'Cant Explain,' and so on.
If a good song results, it's a win. Good catch, btw.
geniale!!
ReplyDeleteThis reaches musical peaks unheard of....ironically speaking
ReplyDeleteAnyone interested in old/rare mag. & music paper articles/interviews with Tom Verlaine & Television band mates Loyd, Hell, Ficca, & Smith should check the video description info. here. I've left a link here to a downloadable file of approx. 60 articles dating from '74 - '90 I collected from 1978 to 1990. Plus a link to scans of scarce poetry book "The Night", by Tom Verlaine & Patti Smith, published 1976.
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Hahah never thought of that, it's plausible
ReplyDeleteLOVE siouxsies ATB's version too
ReplyDeleteOne of the best jams of all time, live!
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ReplyDeleteyeah siouxsie's cover is cool! mind telling me the name of the covers album?
ReplyDeleteIt's Television's song. Tom Verlaine wrote it, & the band issued it as a single in 1975. But I love Siouxsie's cover the Banshees included on an all-covers album they once did. You Tube has two versions of Siouxsie doing it. One's from a BBC session recording (my fave).
ReplyDeletedid siouxsie & the banshees cover this or was it vice versa?
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but with all due respect to Built To Spill, I think that Doug and company aspired to be these guys... They're pretty good and all, but a bit too stoned to come to the glory and excitement of Television. Don't try to be Tom Verlaine...
ReplyDeleteIt's so amazing. I've always imagined these brittle guitars as... the sound of strings on an egg sharer... do you know what I mean? Maybe it's alocal invention, but it's like five (or six, that would be great) strings of tin and a plastic thing you put the egg in, and then you press...
ReplyDeleteIf ROIR is violating their agreement, they're doing it pretty blatantly, and Verlaine wouldn't have much difficulty obtaining legal relief. That these reissues remain in print, and have gone through multiple editions, indicates ROIR feel they are on strong footing.to put them out.
ReplyDelete@Bobjb999: Thanks for the clarification. I was not aware of this issue at all. Obviously, we'd need to see the contract to actually understand what was agreed to, but generally licensing is for the work itself, with a limitation imposed to a specific period of time, but a limitation of release format to just tape would be unusual. Possibly ROIR's later reissue on CD and vinyl could have violated that time period limitation. But my guess is that Verlaine didn't understand what he was agreeing to.
ReplyDeleteLet me more specific. I have an old Tom Verlaine print interview where he says the ROIR cassette release was legit but that the later CD release was "completely illegal". Just because the same company released both, doesn't mean ROIR had legal rights to release both. So, I was just quoting Tom's (& his lawyer's?) view. But maybe you have a "more accurate" legal opinion about it?
ReplyDeleteThis has been released in two legit CD editions by ROIR. You're misinformed.
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